The cool hotel guide Close House, Heddon on the Wall

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Only eight miles west of Newcastle, we turned down narrow country lanes lined
with rambling hedgerows, slowed to let pheasants skip into the undergrowth
and looked across the patchwork-green sweep of the Tyne Valley — all signs
of the big city gone. We moved into an even smaller lane lined by oaks, more
darting pheasants, and then purred in the hotel’s fancy Audi A7 — used for
complimentary transfers from the train station — past a car park with
gleaming BMWs, Range Rovers and Mercs.

Since opening in 2005, Close House has become the hotel of choice in the North
East for footballers